Cinematography is the art of motion picture photography. Cinematographers use a lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sensor or light-sensitive material inside a movie camera.

Art Film –Alphaville, Once Upon A Time In The West

Mainstream Film –Love Simon, Deadpool 2, A Bug’s Life, The Breakfast Club, The Shape of Water.

Historically Significant Film – Battleship Potemkin, The Seventh Samurai, The Wizard of Oz.

The arrangement of the scenery, props, etc. on the stage of a theatrical production or on the set of a film.  Examples of this is the setting, lighting, actors, décor and makeup.

1. Knowledgeable

This links to film as you need to be knowledgeable about everything that it takes to create a good movie .

2. Open-minded

You need to be open-minded to enjoy other types of film and to respect the types of genres and different cultures that films demonstrate from across the world

3. Caring

You need to be caring about the effort that the creator put into the film even if you don’t personally enjoy it.

4. Thinkers

You need to think about the types of techniques and reasons that the creators of the film use different techniques for the reason they added certain elements

5. Communicators

It requires communication with cast and crew to create one cohesive narrative that others are willing to watch.

6. Inquirers

This is important to film as you need to inquire how different things were made and created and how well they are utilized.

7. Principled

In many aspects of film, you may come across political messages or meanings. Stick to your principles and know what is right.

8. Reflective

Being able to comment on a piece of work you have written or produced or offering constructive criticism to benefit others.

9. Risk-Takers

Especially in the producing aspect of this course, risks will need to be taken to enhance a media product and keep it original.

Match on action- Cutting/transitioning between two events that are similar in action or movement.

Graphic Match-  Links two different scenes together through the use of aesthetically similar elements like shapes, colours, patterns or overall movements.

Eyeline Match- When the point of view of one or more characters is cut and matched with what they are looking at.

A match cut is an edit in cinematography that uses elements of one scene in the transition to the next scene. The purpose is to create a visual match for different scenes that are not inherently linked, like scenes set in different locations, by having a second shot that — in some way — mirrors the first

Examples:

1. Graphic Match Cuts — shapes, colours, compositions.
2. Match on Action Cuts — action, movement.
3. Sound Bridge — sound effects, dialogue, music

In “2001 A Space Odyssey” it features a graphic cut, where there is a scene of a bone being thrown into the air and it cuts to a scene of the outside of the space station.

J Cut – when the audio from a scene or shot overlaps onto the next scene or shot.

L Cut – when the audio from the preceding scene continues to play over the footage from the following scene.

J cut- Where the audio from the following scene overlaps the picture from the prior scene.

L cut- Where the audio from the prior scene overlaps the picture from the following scene.

Editing is a way to compress hours of recorded images into one coherent, natural-looking sequence of shots by deleting, arranging, and splicing and synchronizing the sound record with the film, etc.